Michael Wood showed this country what true Labour leadership looks like with a fiery display in Parliament for the 3rd reading of the Fair Pay Agreement!
He righteously pointed to Nationals 30 year neoliberal experiment in de-unionising the work force as the reason things have gone backwards for workers!
We don’t have the highest tax rates, that’s not our economic problem – our economic problem is low wages from de-unionisation!
Fair Pay Agreements finally give workers real rights and finally forces the bosses to pay decent wages.
Michael Wood is a champion for working class people and he is a champion for a fair deal in Aotearoa New Zealand!
Helen Kelly will finally be proud of this Government.
Three cheers for Michael Wood!
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I know that he (Michael Wood) is, by all accounts thus far, a very good Member of Parliament and has achieved desired outcomes. He appears to be an incredibly hard worker.
Martyn, I enjoyed reading this article.
Well credit where credit is due.
Hoewever I can never forget his “river of filth comment”
Antivaxers are filth. Micheal Wood is the future. He is the only Kirk-ist Labour minister in the cabinet, and Jacinda needs to step aside.
His wife, I believe was involved in The Alliance when she was younger.
Nor can I Anker, and neither can tens of thousands of other voters. Pretty hard to forget that, aye?
More like ten than ten thousand. I cannot stand the man but he got it right on that occasion
No.
Denial gets the left nowhere. I wish there was a way of quantifying the damage done by this needless purging of its own by the left.
It was the own-goal of the century.
And as a side note, who is assumed to be worthless is exactly who comes back and takes a huge chunk of your arse. This kind of ignorance is pure hubris. There are other issues but this part ended Labours chances in the next election.
Trevor “ More like ten…” I don’t think so. Those protestors were a giant-sized nuisance, and half of them were nuts, but I didn’t like hearing fellow countrymen being referred to as “ a river of filth” by a serving politician. It said more about him.
We can compare river of filth to bottom feeders
covid is pa. Agree. Both unacceptable, and b’feeders crude.
He sees that things are right or wrong & uses direct language to describe his views, you might not agree but at least you know where he stands. I prefer knowing how people think to those slimy people who profess friendship and then stab you in the back.
Wood may not be perfect, but I don’t see anyone else with a view even remotely close to what the original founders of the Labour party would have recognized in Parliament. Not perfect, but a damn sight better than any of the other players on the field.
He is virtually the only old school Labour type, apart from Willie Jackson on a good day, in the entire Labour Caucus.
He stood up for the change to bus service contracting that will see many bus services returned to public ownership via Councils rather than lowest payer wins private operators. He pushed FPAs when everyone else including the CTU were lukewarm on them.
River of filth? that is more like what the anti Vaxers and various shades of munter have been throwing at the PM for a very long time.
Working class champion/“river of filth”
Hmkay.
A future of regular payrises and 40 hour weeks await for the workforce.
National want sweatshops. Plain and simple.
I met him too Nathan. If fact I live in his electorate.
A weasel? No more than most in parliament.
One thing I do know is he is not afraid to meet his constituents, hear criticism and respond to it.
It does not mean I think he is wonderful but tell me an alternative?
Judging by all the usual childish coments here it must be true that the righty trolls are pissed on the realisation its a year vaway from “three more years dickheads”….
Unfortunately for Wood post the covid cult he has become a snarly, arrogant weasel. Coupled with below average performances in Transport and Immigration he would likely be another Cunliffe in regards to leadership.
That said the next leader of the Labour party is:
a). Going into opposition
b). Won’t get cut through with the public given 5-6yrs of abject disgraceful leadership
Therefore I happily support would being the next leader of the Labour Party.
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